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Subject: Re: finicky protein
From: Juergen Bosch jbosch {- at -} U {- dot -} WASHINGTON {- dot -} EDU
Date: 2008-03-05

Something else you could try is adding know ligands to your purification
step - depending on your proteein (or even during expression, e.g.
metals come to mind).

Juergen

price@UCHICAGO.EDU wrote:

>Just beware that changing how you break the cells open can
>change the average size of chromosome chunks, which can
>change how DNA binding proteins behave in the lysate.
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>>Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 15:21:15 +0000
>>From: Mads Gabrielsen
>>Subject: [ccp4bb] finicky protein
>>To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
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>>I am not a big fan of sonication. Try changing your way of
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>disrupting the
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>>cells.
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>>I have compared sonication vs mechanical stress on several
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>unrelated proteins,
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>>and for me a good old french press wins every time. If you
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>want to get all
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>>modern and fancy, a cell disruptor gives similar results.
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>>Cheers,
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>>Mads Gabrielsen
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>>On Mar 2, 2008, at 11:47 PM, Tim Gruene wrote:
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>>Hi all
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>>sorry, for offtopic query...
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>>I am trying to purify my protein by Ni-NTA affinity
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>chromatography. After
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>>sonication as i centrifuge bacterial lysate, soon after 10
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>min whole
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>>lysates
>>get precipitated during loading on the column and some time
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>it remain
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>>soluble too. if i get purified through the column without
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>precipitation,
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>>it
>>gets precipitated during dialysis.
>>I have tried lot, by chnaging buffers, increasing salt or
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>deacreasing salt
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>>or no salt at are helpless.
>>I do purifiaction in cold room.
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>>can any one suggest some solution?
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>>Thanks in advance.
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>>NSH
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>>--
>>Dr. Mads Gabrielsen
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>>GBRC, B217
>>Division of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
>>IBLS
>>University of Glasgow Phone Office: 01413308119
>>G12 8QQ Phone Lab: 01413306449
>>UK E-mail:
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>m.gabrielsen@bio.gla.ac.uk
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